- Title
- Exploring visual culture and gender through discursive and performative visual art practices
- Creator
- Grushka, Kathryn
- Relation
- Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture p. 3-18
- Relation
- http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Taking-a-Hard-Look--Gender-and-Visual-Culture1-4438-0982-9.htm
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Visual popular culture represents the habitus of youth. It is central to how they communicate and express themselves and visual imagining is at the core of twenty first century communicative practices. The multi-media visual activities of popular culture shape representations and inform identities, especially gendered identities, through the transference of aesthetic forms, ideas, beliefs and values. Secondary visual art curriculum in Australia, informed by postmodern and popular visual culture perspectives is providing performative sites for the individual to reflect on visual culture and gender within the broader field of fine art practices. The discursive and expressive contemporary art making practices employed in the classroom are presented as offering ways for youth to resist hegemonic practices, explore their subjectivities and affirm themselves. Through a longitudinal analysis of student visual art learning outcomes this chapter examines some of the topics that students chose to explore as they actively disrupt the perpetuating consumption imperative of visual culture in media practices through art making to inform identity while becoming subjects.
- Subject
- visual cultures; visual imagining; visual arts; genders; discursive arts
- Identifier
- uon:8644
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918554
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781443809825
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